Kinetics of sequential metabolism from D-leucine to L-leucine via α-ketoisocaproic acid in rat

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1436-1440

  Hasegawa, Hiroshi ^a   Matsukawa, Takehisa ^a   Shinohara, Yoshihiko ^a   Hashimoto, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOISOCAPROIC ACID; LEUCINE; ALPHA-KETOISOCAPROIC ACID; OXOACID;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DEAMINATION; DECARBOXYLATION; ENANTIOMER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHARMACOKINETICS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEREOISOMERISM;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; KETO ACIDS; LEUCINE; MALE; PHARMACOKINETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0036893415     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/dmd.30.12.1436     Document Type: Article

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